{"id":44419,"date":"2023-10-20T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/bigcommerce-confirms-magento-deal-with-store-migration-plans-ready-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:35:49","slug":"bigcommerce-confirms-magento-deal-with-store-migration-plans-ready-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/bigcommerce-confirms-magento-deal-with-store-migration-plans-ready-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigcommerce confirms Magento deal with store migration plans ready &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"325\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/l_bigcommerce.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_bigcommerce\"><\/div>\n<p>Australian e-commerce company Bigcommerce has confirmed <a href=\"growth\/bigcommerce-coy-on-deal-to-acquire-magentos-go-service\/2014063012623.html\">reports<\/a> eBay-owned Magento has named it as the software-as-a-service migration provider for its ProStores and Magento Go platforms, which will be discontinued on February 1, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Magento and Bigcommerce have carefully coordinated the design of a migration program to ensure that ProStores and Go retailers can begin making plans to migrate their stores well before the critical holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The eBay Enterprise senior vice president of product and strategy, Mark Lavelle, says the company chose Bigcommerce to help with the transition because of their shared commitment to client success and their proven track record of migrating large groups of merchants onto their platform.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement announcing the deal, eBay says Magento is a \u201cnatural choice\u201d because of its client-centric culture, tight integration with PayPal and the ability for its clients to sell on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMagento is dedicated to helping fast-growing retailers succeed,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout this transition period, we will fully support both ProStores and Go, and clients will receive the same level of customer service they\u2019ve come to expect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bigcommerce has previously migrated more than 6000 ProStores retailers onto its platform and has migrated an additional 6000 stores from other platforms, which it says gives it the industry\u2019s deepest expertise in terms of in-house professional services and tools to help clients successfully relaunch their stores.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bigcommerce chief executive officer Eddie Machalaani, one of the company\u2019s two Australian co-founders, says the team is excited to work with the new merchants they\u2019re acquiring in the deal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand that the to-do list for small business owners is never-ending, and our teams are standing by to deliver the very best migration and onboarding experience so merchants can focus on growing their businesses,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian e-commerce company Bigcommerce has confirmed reports eBay-owned Magento has named it as the software-as-a-service migration provider for its ProStores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}